Soft Loop gathers videoworks that dwell in slowness, return, and the ways moving image can hold viewers in suspended attention. The program becomes a space where beginnings and endings dissolve, inviting immersion in subtle shifts and recurring gestures, an unfolding temporal landscape that resists linearity, instead embracing the soft persistence of the loop.
Soft Loop will be on view at Gryfjan in Ásmundarsalur.
(Rhoda Ting (b. 1985, Australia) and Mikkel Bojesen (b. 1988, Denmark) are an artist duo based in Copenhagen, working at the intersection of art and science. Their practice centers on non-human agency, microbial systems, and speculative futures, often incorporating living organisms and laboratory materials into sculptural and performative installations. Their practice incorporates scientific collaboration, working with bacteria, spores, and other life forms to make visible the unseen processes of the Earth. By cultivating living systems in sculptural contexts, their work draws attention to interspecies collaboration and temporal cycles far beyond human perception.
Deep Time invites viewers to step outside the narrow framework of human temporality, making visible the geological timescales that precede and outlast human history. By presenting the earth’s evolutionary archive, the work reframes the human experience as a minor blip in the planet’s chronology. Rhizome, by contrast, brings the microscopic scale into focus, highlighting the entangled, non-linear, and decentralized networks of fungal life. As a sculptural installation composed of petri dishes with living fungi, the piece operates as a living system, a slow, unpredictable collaboration between art and organism. The work evolves over time, shifting unpredictably, and resisting spectacle. Their practice challenges not just the viewer’s pace of attention but also their understanding of evolutionary, ecological, and aesthetic systems.
